Episode guide
Heartbreak High: Season 5
40 episodes · premiered Jun 23, 1997
An entirely new school, new staff and new students keep the tensions running high and bring in even more trouble to the Hartley hallways this year.
- Episode 1: Episode 131 Jun 23, 1997 · 45m The Heartly high students are getting a hard time from the Heartly heights students and one of them plays a crule prank on Anita.
- Episode 2: Episode 132 Jun 25, 1997 · 44m Kurt is embarrased by hais alchoholic father.Leo Fine is sent to jail and Melanie Blacks dad takes over at the sharkpool.
- Episode 3: Episode 133 Jun 30, 1997 · 43m The newest addition to the teaching staff at Hartley Heights High School, Gerard Albers, is an eccentric and flamboyant bohemian from Spain, who is as at home on the touch football field…
- Episode 4: Episode 134 Jul 2, 1997 · 45m When Les confiscates a Penthouse magazine from Drazic in class, he has no idea what the consequences will be. Drazic takes revenge by sticking a centrefold on one of Les' Biology teaching…
- Episode 5: Episode 135 Jul 7, 1997 · 44m New kid Andrew arrives at Hartley. Although he has Muscular Dystrophy and is in a wheelchair, he is determined to be treated like a normal teenager.
- Episode 6: Episode 136 Jul 9, 1997 · 44m Melanie and Andrew seem happy together but as opposition to their relationship mounts, Melanie starts having second thoughts.
- Episode 7: Episode 137 Jul 14, 1997 · 45m Albers decides to teach a history class with a twist when he asks the class to put Arthur Phillip on trial. Was Arthur Phillip a good man or did he knowingly attempt to carry out genocide…
- Episode 8: Episode 138 Jul 16, 1997 · 45m Anita and Ryan are not coping well with the 4am wake up calls from baby James. Jeff feels bad - he came here to help the kids through the HSC but he seems to be making things harder for…
- Episode 9: Episode 139 Jul 21, 1997 · 43m Anita and Ryan are enjoying life without parental supervision until Kath Livingstone, the new housekeeper, arrives with her daughter Sarah.
- Episode 10: Episode 140 Jul 23, 1997 · 44m Nikki is furious when Kurt continuously puts his love for the environment ahead of her. However, he reveals the cause of his fanaticism: a seal at the Aquarium is on the brink of death…
- Episode 11: Episode 141 Jul 28, 1997 · 44m When Sarah helps Anita and Drazic discover the internet, she inadvertently gets them both into trouble. Anita is wooed by a man calling himself DJ Byron but when she agrees to meet him she…
- Episode 12: Episode 142 Jul 30, 1997 · 46m Ryan, still smarting over Kurt and Nikki's blossoming relationship, is staying away from the football team. However, Barry manages to persuade him to rejoin for an inter-school competition.
- Episode 13: Episode 143 Aug 4, 1997 · 44m After putting Kurt in hospital, Ryan finds he is being ostracised. Feeling sorry for himself, he wags school and meets Mario,, who offers him a way out of his depression - and so, Ryan…
- Episode 14: Episode 144 Aug 6, 1997 · 44m Now well and truly entrenched in the world of drugs, Ryan is at the point where his speed is costing him more than he can afford. Desperate for more drugs, Ryan begins to steal, first from…
- Episode 15: Episode 145 Aug 11, 1997 · 45m When Ryan is late for class again, and hasn't done his major assignment, Barnett hauls him over the coals. Ryan refuses to be helped by her or anyone and walks out before he can be…
- Episode 16: Episode 146 Aug 13, 1997 · 45m Sarah enlists Anita's help to find her father but Kath makes it very clear that they'll receive no assistance from her.
- Episode 17: Episode 147 Aug 18, 1997 · 44m While busking, Nikki meets Luda, a recording artist who wants to record one of her songs.
- Episode 18: Episode 148 Aug 20, 1997 · 46m Since Mai and Drazic had a close nocturnal encounter, things in the warehouse have been somewhat tense. As the new arrival, Kurt feels that maybe he's the problem.
- Episode 19: Episode 149 Aug 25, 1997 · 44m When JJ, a prisoner on day release, begins working at the school, he runs into some prejudice from the kids. All that is, except Sarah who, upon talking to JJ, realises they have a lot in…
- Episode 20: Episode 150 Aug 27, 1997 · 44m Despite her mothers objections and threats, Sarah continues her relationship with JJ.
- Episode 21: Episode 151 Sep 1, 1997 · 44m Deciding to refocus his life on getting back in shape, Kurt has a chance meeting with Lachlan, an old friend who is now running a fitness club that is dedicated to cleaning up the…
- Episode 22: Episode 152 Sep 3, 1997 · 45m Kurt and Lachlan discover Skye and her friends camping in the park and try to move them on. Things heat up when Lachlan and Anita later find Lachlan's club house has been vandalised.
- Episode 23: Episode 153 Sep 8, 1997 · 45m Lee Delaine has two strikes against him: he's the newest student at Hartley Heights and to make matters worse, his father is the school's new Humanities teacher.
- Episode 24: Episode 154 Sep 10, 1997 · 44m Sarah is back at Hartley having finally left home and returned to the city. She has rented a flat, but the landlord keeps trying to chat her up as well as beating his wife.
- Episode 25: Episode 155 Sep 15, 1997 · 45m When Drazic throws himself into trying to design a new type of skate, Di suggests he consider a career in industrial design.
- Episode 26: Episode 156 Sep 19, 1997 · 45m Believing she's on a date with Paul, Anita is taken aback when he recoils from her attempt to kiss him. When she presses him for an explanation, Paul reveals to her that he is gay.
- Episode 27: Episode 157 Sep 22, 1997 · 44m Pat Gregory, an old friend of Nat Delane, takes up a teaching post at Hartley, but soon runs into trouble with Lee who is still having difficulty fitting in.
- Episode 28: Episode 158 Sep 24, 1997 · 45m With his parents waiting for him to choose a new school to attend, Lee shocks them by announcing he is not going to change schools - he's dropping out.
- Episode 29: Episode 159 Sep 29, 1997 · 44m Nikki turns moral crusader when she learns that the mother of her friend Tasha is being exploited by her boss. Nikki takes it upon herself to demand he pay his workers a fair wage but her…
- Episode 30: Episode 160 Oct 1, 1997 · 45m Di informs the students that the school has installed a card-swipe system as part of an "efficiency measure". Among other things, the cards record attendance, a system Drazic is quick to…
- Episode 31: Episode 161 Oct 6, 1997 · 45m In a well intentioned effort to help Sarah overcome her inhibitions, Ryan volunteers her to perform a play in front of the class. Seeing a chance to help Kurt explore his sensitive side…
- Episode 32: Episode 162 Oct 8, 1997 · 45m Wanting to take her relationship with Ryan further, Sarah asks Nat and Jill if she can have a friend stay the night. They are quick to agree, unaware she means Ryan, and the evening is…
- Episode 33: Episode 163 Oct 13, 1997 · 45m After Anita spends the night with Kurt at the shed, Drazic doesn't appreciate Kurt rubbing his nose in their relationship and asks Ryan to move out.
- Episode 34: Episode 164 Oct 15, 1997 · 45m With a virtual Cold War existing at the shed between Kurt and Ryan, Kurt conspires with their realtor to orchestrate a scheme to break their lease by getting evicted.
- Episode 35: Episode 165 Oct 20, 1997 · 44m Nikki's behaviour grows more erratic. She has missed two days of school and when she returns, wet from being in a fountain where she was talking to a cherub, Lee becomes concerned for her…
- Episode 36: Episode 166 Oct 22, 1997 · 45m Kurt takes up the cause of helping find a mate for Wally the sea turtle. With charitable donations hard to come by, Kurt accepts help from D'espo who comes up with a racy promotion for a…
- Episode 37: Episode 167 Oct 27, 1997 · 44m After a humbling defeat on the tennis court at the hand of a visiting tennis ace, Kurt takes a personal interest in Bonnie Coyne but her intense training schedule - and demanding mother…
- Episode 38: Episode 168 Oct 29, 1997 · 45m To mark Ryan's move into the shed, Sarah gives him a clock that is family heirloom. Needing money to buy a bed, Ryan turns down Sarah's offer of a loan and then takes Drazic's suggestion…
- Episode 39: Episode 169 Nov 3, 1997 · 44m A radio contest for a state-of-the-art sound system catches Drazic's ear. "The Wheelie Challenge" is an endurance challenge that has the competitors riding a Ferris wheel.
- Episode 40: Episode 170 (Season finale) Nov 5, 1997 · 44m Kurt's sudden disruptive behaviour escalates until he assaults Mr Delaine in the corridor and is suspended from school.